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Kenneth Williford

University of Texas at Arlington, Philosophy/Humanities, Faculty Member

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Papers

Unlimited associative learning and the origins of consciousness: the missing point of view

Biology & Philosophy, 2021

The Moon illusion explained by the projective consciousness model

Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2020

The Projective Consciousness Model and Phenomenal Selfhood

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018

A mathematical model of embodied consciousness

Journal of theoretical biology, Jan 7, 2017

We introduce a mathematical model of embodied consciousness, the Projective Consciousness Model (... more We introduce a mathematical model of embodied consciousness, the Projective Consciousness Model (PCM), which is based on the hypothesis that the spatial field of consciousness (FoC) is structured by a projective geometry and under the control of a process of active inference. The FoC in the PCM combines multisensory evidence with prior beliefs in memory and frames them by selecting points of view and perspectives according to preferences. The choice of projective frames governs how expectations are transformed by consciousness. Violations of expectation are encoded as free energy. Free energy minimization drives perspective taking, and controls the switch between perception, imagination and action. In the PCM, consciousness functions as an algorithm for the maximization of resilience, using projective perspective taking and imagination in order to escape local minima of free energy. The PCM can account for a variety of psychological phenomena: the characteristic spatial phenomenolog...

The Paradoxes of Subjectivity and the Projective Structure of Consciousness

Consciousness and Subjectivity

Preserved Self-Awareness following Extensive Bilateral Brain Damage to the Insula, Anterior Cingulate, and Medial Prefrontal Cortices

PLoS ONE, 2012

Millikan and Her Critics

Husserl's hyletic data and phenomenal consciousness

Self-representational approaches to consciousness

© 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be rep... more

The self-representational structure of consciousness

Self-representational approaches to consciousness, Jan 1, 2006

The Structure of Self-consciousness: A Phenomenological and Philosophical Investigation

Three Studies on Berkeley's Philosophy of Language

Consciousness and Self-Reference

Moore, the Diaphanousness of Consciousness, and Physicalism

METAPHYSICA-ONTOS VERLAG-, Jan 1, 2004

Berkeley's theory of operative language in the Manuscript Introduction= La théorie du langage opératif dans l'introduction du manuscrit de Berkeley

British journal for the history of philosophy, Jan 1, 2003

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Demea's a priori Theistic Proof

Hume studies, Jan 1, 2011

Unlimited associative learning and the origins of consciousness: the missing point of view

Biology & Philosophy, 2021

The Moon illusion explained by the projective consciousness model

Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2020

The Projective Consciousness Model and Phenomenal Selfhood

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018

A mathematical model of embodied consciousness

Journal of theoretical biology, Jan 7, 2017

We introduce a mathematical model of embodied consciousness, the Projective Consciousness Model (... more We introduce a mathematical model of embodied consciousness, the Projective Consciousness Model (PCM), which is based on the hypothesis that the spatial field of consciousness (FoC) is structured by a projective geometry and under the control of a process of active inference. The FoC in the PCM combines multisensory evidence with prior beliefs in memory and frames them by selecting points of view and perspectives according to preferences. The choice of projective frames governs how expectations are transformed by consciousness. Violations of expectation are encoded as free energy. Free energy minimization drives perspective taking, and controls the switch between perception, imagination and action. In the PCM, consciousness functions as an algorithm for the maximization of resilience, using projective perspective taking and imagination in order to escape local minima of free energy. The PCM can account for a variety of psychological phenomena: the characteristic spatial phenomenolog...

The Paradoxes of Subjectivity and the Projective Structure of Consciousness

Consciousness and Subjectivity

Preserved Self-Awareness following Extensive Bilateral Brain Damage to the Insula, Anterior Cingulate, and Medial Prefrontal Cortices

PLoS ONE, 2012

Millikan and Her Critics

Husserl's hyletic data and phenomenal consciousness

Self-representational approaches to consciousness

© 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be rep... more

The self-representational structure of consciousness

Self-representational approaches to consciousness, Jan 1, 2006

The Structure of Self-consciousness: A Phenomenological and Philosophical Investigation

Three Studies on Berkeley's Philosophy of Language

Consciousness and Self-Reference

Moore, the Diaphanousness of Consciousness, and Physicalism

METAPHYSICA-ONTOS VERLAG-, Jan 1, 2004

Berkeley's theory of operative language in the Manuscript Introduction= La théorie du langage opératif dans l'introduction du manuscrit de Berkeley

British journal for the history of philosophy, Jan 1, 2003

RefDoc Bienvenue - Welcome. Refdoc est un service / is powered by. ...

Demea's a priori Theistic Proof

Hume studies, Jan 1, 2011